From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78018 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: bulk move to non-existant group Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:52:23 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87zkoqr220.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <877hbv2vp1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300586018 26191 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2011 01:53:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:53:38 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26331@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Mar 20 02:53:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q17pk-00030u-OE for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:53:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q17oz-00037U-Eq; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:52:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q17oy-00037F-14 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:52:44 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q17ou-0002TK-Iq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:52:41 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q17os-0002eR-As for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:52:38 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q17or-0002nR-Mn for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:52:37 +0100 Original-Received: from c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.186.102.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:52:37 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:52:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SugPwGNzoYYCWfy4Rtl4L1szukU= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78018 Archived-At: On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:31:22 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: EA> I seem to have just deleted all my archived sent messages from 2010 by EA> moving them into a non-existant group. When you move one message into a EA> non-existant group it asks if you want to create it. I marked a whole EA> year's worth of messages and moved them. To be honest I don't remember EA> if it prompted me to create the group or not, but the upshot is that the EA> group wasn't created and a year's worth of sent messages disappeared. EA> I've had a look at gnus-summary-move-article and it's about a mile EA> long—can someone tell me if something is wrong in there? I'm not about EA> to do any more experimentation… I doubt you actually lost the messages. Let's do it the slow but sure way. Go to the server buffer (`^' from the Group buffer). Hit RET on each server, then RET on each group on that server. You'll probably find an unsubscribed group where your messages dwell now. Ted